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Scientific Linux Security Update : spice-server on SL7.x x86_64

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 85790

Synopsis

The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

A race condition flaw, leading to a heap-based memory corruption, was found in spice's worker_update_monitors_config() function, which runs under the QEMU-KVM context on the host. A user in a guest could leverage this flaw to crash the host QEMU-KVM process or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the host QEMU-KVM process. (CVE-2015-3247)

Solution

Update the affected spice-debuginfo, spice-server and / or spice-server-devel packages.